October 5, 2014 AT 2:00 am

Engineers Build Ultrasmall Organic Laser

A group of engineers have developed the smallest organic laser. via C&EN:

The 8-µm-long device, which looks like a suspended bridge riddled with holes, is carved into a silicon chip coated with an organic dye. Integrated into microprocessor chips, such tiny lasers could one day speed up computers by shuttling data using light rather than electrons. They also could be valuable for sensors and lab-on-a-chip devices.